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21 For the king of Babylon stands at the [a]parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use (A)divination; he (B)shakes the arrows; he asks the [b](C)household idols; he looks at the liver. 22 Into his right hand came the divination, ‘Jerusalem,’ to (D)set battering rams, to open the mouth [c]for killing, to lift up the voice with a shout of war, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up ramps, to build a siege wall. 23 And it will be to them like a worthless divination in their eyes; (E)they have sworn solemn oaths. But he (F)brings iniquity to remembrance, that they may be seized.

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  1. Ezekiel 21:21 Lit mother
  2. Ezekiel 21:21 Heb teraphim
  3. Ezekiel 21:22 Lit in